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Millions of people lack access to clean water globally, and that lack of access - or rather, access to unsafe drinking water - kills as many as 15 people per minute. We have many options for filtering water, but a

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation are the folk who continue to enlighten the world on the impact that plastics pollution is having on marine life and our oceans. It is their groundbreaking work (can you say

When it comes to the water crisis, there's little to laugh about. And Rachelle Begley hit humorlessness on its head with this joke. She's not the only celebrity trying to bring water issues to everyone's attention. Check out some of our other favorite

After pulling data from 1.6 million salinity profiles and data from the international Argo Program - a massive fleet of small oceanic robotic probes that gather information used by 50 research and operational agencies from 26 countries - scientists

There are farms in the Venice Lagoon producing local food, and like the city, they are sinking as the water from the aquifer below is pumped out. This farm used to irrigate with well and municipal water, but artists

According to a new report released by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Engineering the Future working group, the bulk of water consumed by UK citizens is imported, mainly in the form of other items that have a

A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and published in Yale 360 shows that the ocean isn't the only body of water with a temperature on the hike. America's rivers

Go to your tap and turn it on. Most likely, the second you turn the faucet handle, water gushes out. That alone might make you think there's not a water crisis happening right now in America. Or at least that if there is, it's

A few weeks ago to help bring awareness to World Water Day, we posted an infographic in a post titled Of All The Water in the World, Just 0.08% Makes It To Our Faucets (Infographic), with the goal being to illustrate the limited amount of clean, fresh

The worst drought in at least 50 years has hit China but it's not a lack of rainfall that's getting the brunt of the blame from Chinese farmers and neighboring countries. Rather than focus on the seemingly clear scientific

Lisa Jackson announced a new EPA guidance document today that will create new standards for mountaintop removal project permits. Some of us were hoping (if unrealistically) for an all-out ban, but the move should at least

Every year, India and Pakistan sit down to talk about and decide on water use from the shared Indus basin. But as we know, the water use in India is skyrocketing while the availability is quickly diminishing. In fact,

You don't need to understand Swedish to get the gist of this ad, which is causing some troubled reaction in Sweden - a beautiful young mom (or caretaker) in a light-filled apartment does the dishes, coos to the baby and then fills a baby bottle with

This might just be the one time you don't mind standing in line to use the restroom, and it's all thanks to World Water Day and a smart project called The World Toilet Queue. Oh yes, it might have felt like a world

Today, partly in honor of World Water Day, charity: water has launched a new campaign for Haiti called Unshaken. As the nonprofit notes, 1.3 million people were displaced from Port-au-Prince to the rural areas of Haiti, so they've selected eleven of